{"id":253226,"date":"2007-07-25T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/25\/jelineks-greed\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:39:00","slug":"jelineks-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/25\/jelineks-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelinek&#39;s Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/dog-days-of-summer-reading-leora.html\">Critical Mass<\/a> has a review of Elfriede Jelinek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/book\/?GCOI=58322100656360\"><i>Greed<\/i><\/a> as part of their &#8220;What to Read This Summer&#8221; series (which, <span class=\"caps\">BTW<\/span>, is totally backing up my belief that summer reading shouldn&#8217;t be limited to craptastic books like <i>The Manny<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>To me, Jelinek is one of the most controversy-causing Nobel recipients of all-time. For every one of her books, half the readers love it, the other half deem it worthless. Which is a sign of a good writer. Someone who provokes, forces readers to feel something, to react strongly, etc. There&#8217;s nothing worse than a book that&#8217;s just a book, a book that&#8217;s fine, yet unspectacular. <\/p>\n<p>Same thing goes for slush submissions. Give me a piece of garbage any day over a book that&#8217;s just OK, that keeps me reading because it&#8217;s not bad enough to laugh at, or good enough to keep me hooked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Mass has a review of Elfriede Jelinek&#8217;s Greed as part of their &#8220;What to Read This Summer&#8221; series (which, BTW, is totally backing up my belief that summer reading shouldn&#8217;t be limited to craptastic books like The Manny). To me, Jelinek is one of the most controversy-causing Nobel recipients of all-time. For every one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1036,2066,1646],"class_list":["post-253226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-elfriede-jelinek","tag-greed","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328886,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253226\/revisions\/328886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}